. The Street railway journal . Anderson. Theolder portion of thestation, as constructedby the Union TractionCompany of Indiana,was built to accommo-date four of these1000-kw units. The endof the building as itstood formerly is indi-cated on the plan, The building has been extended, as shown, so that it nowtakes in five units, with room for six, and a second stack. Thesecond stack, however, has not yet been erected, and the firststack is furnishing draft for the boilers now installed. Thetrack enters the building at the northwest corner of the engineroom. This connects with the tracks i
. The Street railway journal . Anderson. Theolder portion of thestation, as constructedby the Union TractionCompany of Indiana,was built to accommo-date four of these1000-kw units. The endof the building as itstood formerly is indi-cated on the plan, The building has been extended, as shown, so that it nowtakes in five units, with room for six, and a second stack. Thesecond stack, however, has not yet been erected, and the firststack is furnishing draft for the boilers now installed. Thetrack enters the building at the northwest corner of the engineroom. This connects with the tracks in the shop near by. Acrane spans the engine room, and machinery can be picked upfrom the cars by the crane and delivered anywhere in the en-gine room. The transformers were originally installed in thebasement of the main power house building near the switch-board. Because of fire risk and dampness, it was decided toplace them in a separate building, and a two-story building was 1072 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. MAIN POWER STATION erected, as shown. This transformer househas transformers on the lower floor, with arailroad track running through the centeraisle. On the second floor are the high-tensionswitches, lightning arresters and static inter-rupters. In all, there are seven and one-thirdsets of transformers, five for the 15,000-voltlines, and two and one-third for the 30,000-^.rolt lines. The insulators for the 30,000-voltlines were all tested by the company. Forthis purpose a 100,000-volt transformer capa-ble of giving varying pressures was used. Thecompleted appearance of some of these engi-neering features, of which drawings havebeen given. *is shown by the accompanyingphotographs. ROLLING STOCKTwo of the accompanying engravings showthe standard passenger and freight cars usednil the line; the former, as will be seen, differsmaterially from that used on most electricrailways. The oval window at the side indi-cates the location of the toilet room, whichalso
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